Just as Tai Chi is considered a high level form of Qigong for health enhancement, Push Hands is an in-depth method of healing and an invaluable tool to promote personal growth. We often identify strongly with our habits of behavior, reactions, and opinions. These rigid patterns of reaction become our self image. Any suggestion of change and fluidity might be seen as a challenge to our identity. Yet, such change and fluidity is an essential and necessary part of life. It is called growth.
To practice Push Hands effectively requires a great amount of sensitivity, relaxation and precision. The lack of appreciation for Push-hands is perhaps due to misconceptions about the role it plays in Tai Chi. Tai Chi is whatever the practitioner wants it to be. If it is inner peace that one seeks, then daily practice will grant that. If it is healing, again, Tai Chi is peerless. Regardless of the motive for practice, Tai Chi meets all expectations, and Push Hands remains an integral part of the concept of change
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Tai Chi can change what the world looks like for us by changing our view of it. After all, our health and our lives are merely reflections of our state of mind. As the body and breath move, so does the mind, clearing energetic blocks that normally lock us into fixed emotional and psychological patterns. This empowering "meditation in motion" reminds us that change is always a necessary constant for the growth and unfolding of our human nature.